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Mobile phones on the battlefield: SIM risks and OPSEC
Why mobile phones pose battlefield risks, with Strava, Makiivka and the Hariri case illustrating SIM anonymity limits and military institutions' responses.
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Contemporary conflict, hybrid warfare, drones, air power, cyber and space, explained with sources.
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Lessons from the war in Ukraine for modern warfare
What defence think tanks draw from the war in Ukraine about drones, electronic warfare, artillery, industry and defence, and which lessons remain disputed.
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Who are the Houthis? Asymmetric warfare in the Red Sea
Who are the Houthis, and how did a movement from northern Yemen disrupt Red Sea shipping? A timeline, cheap drones, Iranian support and the debate over power.
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Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia: An Alliance in the Making
What is known about Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia's military ties, the 2025 defence pact, Turkish defence industry and the limits of alliance claims.
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HIMARS vs Smerch and Tornado-S: Precision versus Saturation
HIMARS vs Smerch and Tornado-S compared: range, accuracy, reload and doctrine of the US and Russian rocket launchers, and what the war in Ukraine has shown.
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How to Counter Hybrid Warfare: Defence Strategies
How states frame responses to hybrid warfare, with debates over social resilience, infrastructure protection, disinformation and deterrence below open conflict.
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Patriot vs S-400: Long-Range Air Defence Systems Compared
Patriot and S-400 air defence systems compared using public sources, covering range, radars, missiles, doctrine and limits in assessing their combat records.
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Early military AI and the drone strikes in Pakistan
How the drone campaign in Pakistan began in 2004, what role automated metadata analysis really played, and why the civilian casualty figures are still disputed.
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AI on the battlefield: targeting, guidance and ethics
How military AI is used in precision guidance and target selection, what rules require, and why human control remains central to ethical debate in warfare.
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Satellite Surveillance: The Real Limits of Orbital Observation
Satellites have made the battlefield more transparent, but they do not see everything all the time. Resolution, clouds, orbits and analysis impose limits.
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Weber, the Laws of War and the International Criminal Court
How Max Weber's monopoly on legitimate violence relates to the laws of war, and why the International Criminal Court relies on cooperation from states.
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Starlink and GPS-Free Drone Navigation in Modern War
How Starlink shapes warfare, alongside GPS-free drone navigation using inertial systems, terrain matching, visual cues and offline artificial intelligence.
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Wartime industry: civilian conversion and dual-use goods
How civilian industry shifts to military production, what makes goods dual-use, and why wartime conversion is often slower than historical accounts suggest.
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Critical Infrastructure in War: Threats and Resilience
Energy, water, transport, health and communications form interdependent systems. This guide explains their risks and resilience without operational detail.
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Fibre-Optic Drones Versus Electronic Warfare
Why fibre-optic cable-guided drones emerged in Ukraine, how they dodge jamming and electromagnetic pulses, and the drawbacks of giving up on radio links.
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Robots on the Battlefield: Armed and Rescue Systems
From bomb-disposal robots to armed unmanned ground vehicles and casualty-evacuation robots: what exists, what Ukraine has shown, and where human control ends.
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Networked Warfare: Connecting Aircraft, Sea and Land
How networked warfare connects aircraft, ships and ground units, with the F-35's sensor fusion illustrating the possibilities and challenges of combat networks.
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Moroccan Diaspora: How States Use Migrants as Policy
How Morocco maintains ties with citizens abroad, and how Turkey, China, India, Israel, Eritrea and Mexico draw on diasporas for international influence.
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What Is Hybrid Warfare? Origins, Doctrine and Crimea
What hybrid warfare means, the origins of the term, debates about the so-called Gerasimov doctrine, and Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 as a case study.
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Logistics and Ukraine's Strikes on the Russian Rear
How Ukraine's strikes on Russian refineries, railways and depots highlight the importance of logistics and the vulnerabilities of economic concentration.
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Why States Spend on Defence: Interests and Inefficiency
Why do states spend on defence? Official rationales, vested interests, measured cost overruns and Nassim Taleb's risk ideas — used as a lens, not as proof.
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The Democratization of Violence in Asymmetric Warfare
What does the 'democratization of violence' mean in asymmetric warfare? Cheap drones, dual-use tech and non-state actors — and where the idea stops holding up.
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Drones on the Battlefield: Types, History and Uses
The history, types and roles of battlefield drones, from nano and FPV systems to the MQ-9 Reaper, with examples spanning Lebanon in 1982 and the war in Ukraine.
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Tanks vs. Drones: How Armor Doctrine Has Changed
How the war in Ukraine has changed tank doctrine, exposed armoured vehicles' vulnerabilities to drones, and fuelled debate about the tank's ongoing relevance.
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Anti-Drone Nets on Tanks: Cope Cages Explained
Why anti-drone cages and nets appeared on tanks in Ukraine, how they evolved from improvisation to industrial design, and how effective they really are.
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Military-Industrial Complex: Which Civilian Tech It Spawned
From Eisenhower's speech to DARPA: how military investment gave rise to the internet, GPS and semiconductors, and what economic research adds to the picture.
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False Flag Operations: Definition and History
What false flag operations are, their naval origins, and cases including Mukden in 1931, Gleiwitz in 1939 and Northwoods, a plan that was never executed.
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What Is Asymmetric Warfare: Definition and Cases
What asymmetric warfare means, where the concept originated, and examples ranging from Vietnam to Hezbollah and the Houthis' operations in the Red Sea today.
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China's Maritime Militia: Fishing Boats, Coast Guard, Gray Zone
How China's maritime militia, fishing fleet and coast guard fit into its naval strategy, with the 2021 law and disputes in the South China Sea as context.
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Migration as a Hybrid Weapon: Turkey, Morocco and Belarus
What the weaponization of migration flows is, how the EU and researchers describe it, and what the cases of Turkey, Ceuta 2021 and the Belarus border show.